The story
Date: 21 May 1939
Departure: Lichtenburg
Arrival: Ravensbrück
Number of deportees: 974 women
Context: The group included Jehovah’s Witnesses, prisoners held in protective custody, Polish women, Jewish women and others imprisoned under Nazi racial and political categories.
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